just had a text from the club

apparently Morale is still high and rob purdham playing is the positive from the KR game

Oh well, that's alright then.

Morale didn't look very high in the bar after the game especially at the thought of a 6pm training session. I suspect most of the players think BMcD is a right twit. They certainly give off that impression.

Well thats what the text from the club said!!!!!!!!!

It's times like these when the "who are they trying to convince" question has to be asked.

There should be no doubts in your mind before you make judgements of me. I am extremely offended.

Listy you are not old enough to understand offended. Take it like the student you are!!

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Sorry GF

quote posting out of order tonight then

I'll try and put some cool headed thoughts on here.

All the signs I see are that it is not a happy dressing room. The most disturbing signals were toward the end of last season after we played Salford and only half the team came through for the presentation, and that suggests a split dressing room which would be even more damaging.
Just one observation from the KR game; O'Callaghan did some good stuff going forward but seemed to think he was attacking all game. I lost count of how many times he wasn't even looking at Kris Welham let alone marking him. KR could have scored 20 tries down that wing if they'd been sharp enough. And what makes it worse is that I didn't see the centre inside him pulling him up for it. That is the sort of basics that the coach can and should be dealing with. BTW I'm not suggesting that O'Callaghan was solely responsible for the debacle, it's just one example of where the team were just not doing the basics.

So we replace Brian McD and resolve our problems? If only it were that simple.

First of all the elephant in the room. Lenagan. He still owns over half the club and yet since he bought Wigan the investment had dried up. We effectively have a split boardroom and that has to be resolved.

Secondly, marketing, or the apparent absence therof. Just one example, the lad who's leaving the club and walked up to collect an award. In a Huddersfield shirt. It doesn't matter if that's the team he's always supported, someone should have handed him a Quins shirt to put on when he went up to collect his award. It wouldn't have mattered if he'd taken it off straight away when he came off stage. People going up on that stage as part of Quins should look like they're part of Quins. And what about the team in grey jumpers? Where's the club logo or colours? All this stuff is the most basic branding.

We have to sort:
the board,
the dressing room,
the marketing.

If we only address one of those we'll go nowhere.

He was with a group of friends all wearing NRL jerseys.

OK, OK, I mis-identified the shirt, but it doesn't alter the point I was making.